The Apple Car development is not going very well…

Unfortunately, in Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter, he says that the Apple Car development is not going very well as multiple people in the team has left the project.

For more information, Joe Bass who was the head of software engineering program management for the Apple Car team has confirmed that left the development team and now works as a director of technical program management at Meta… And literally almost the entire Apple car management team has all left in 2021, including: Dave Scott, Jaime Waydo, Dave Rosenthal, Benjamin Luon, Doug Field, and Michael Schwekutsch. And now, the new head of the Apple Car development is Kevin Lynch.

And Mark Gurman believes that 2022 will be a make-or-break year for the Project as several employees have left the project but we’ll see then. But I believe the project may end up getting placed on-hold.

He also says that under the new leadership by Kevin Lynch, they are going to develop an Apple Car that has full self-driving capabilities without any human help rather than doing the first option which is creating a model similar to most current cars from Tesla according to people from the project.

Now in other news of what he said, he is also told that Apple is preparing a dump of new apple product releases this September and October including: the entire iPhone 14 lineup, M2 14” MacBook Pro (not 13”), 27” iMac, Mac Pro, M2 MacBook Air / MacBook, AirPods Pro 2, three Apple Watch models (likely the Series 8 Apple Watch, and Rugged Apple Watch), 10th generation iPad, and the M2 iPad Pro. But unfortunately no Apple Mixed Reality headset due to Hardware and software issues, making this year not really that exciting for me especially when the 10th generation iPad will not get the redesign.